MISSION

TARGET OF KRISHI EVAM GRAMIN VIKASH PERBANDHAN SANSTHAN

The population explosion, industrial development and migration of people from rural to urban areas have resulted in the very fast growth of the urban sector in the country. Rapid urbanisation has created many socio-economic problems making life miserable, particularly for migrants and deprived communities who normally live in inhuman conditions in the slums, on pavements, in settlement colonies, labour colonies etc. Many are first generation migrants exposed to the stark realities of complex urban life and the industrial milieu. Similar conditions affect people living in the peripheral rural areas who have links with the neighbouring urban agglomerations for employment, business, services etc.

Adult education is vitally important for these groups to improve their lives, decrease their dependency, increase their work efficiency and sharpen their capabilities for adaptation to social, economic and technological changes in the midst of their lives and work. The educational and vocational needs of these deprived sections constitute a specialised area of continuing education demanding its own strategy, institutional arrangements and techniques.

Relating this need and growing urbanization to the coming decades, the then KRISHI EVAM GRAMIN VIKASH PERBANDHAN SANSTHAN , started a scheme - of Adult Education for Workers in Urban and Industrial areas. In the context of the country’s overall development, this programme was conceived as responding to the educational and vocational training needs of numerous groups of adults and young people. Men and women belonging mostly to the unorganised, urban informal sector, living and working in urban and industrial areas and persons who have been migrating from rural to urban settings, were expected to derive substantial benefits from such a scheme.

The first KRISHI EVAM GRAMIN VIKASH PERBANDHAN SANSTHAN was established in Sultanpur (UP) in the year 2006 and gradually the number increased to 06 upto 2010, These institutions have already proved to be one of the best vocational adult education centres in the country and the courses offered by these institutions are in popular demand. Today, KRISHI EVAM GRAMIN VIKASH PERBANDHAN SANSTHAN offer around 20 different types of vocational training programmes ranging from candle and agarbatti making to computers.

Mass Campaigns for literacy in India have been essentially campaigns for social mobilization for awakening and arousing people in all walks of life. As people’s participation in Literacy Campaigns begin to increase, their involvement in socio-economic activities also becomes more meaningful. More than 85% of the country has been covered by the Literacy Campaigns and over 150 million learners in 9-25 age group, of whom about 62% are women have been brought within its ambit. Literacy has become a significant instrument of empowerment for the poor, neo-literates and oppressed groups.

Hitherto, the scheme of KRISHI EVAM GRAMIN VIKASH PERBANDHAN SANSTHAN was restricted to urban/semi-urban industrial areas. Keeping in view the changing literacy scenario in the country and the large number of neo-literates to be covered under Continuing Education [in which skill development/ upgradation is a part], the activities of KRISHI EVAM GRAMIN VIKASH PERBANDHAN SANSTHAN are proposed to be enlarged to provide academic and technical resource support to NGO] in taking up vocational and skill development programmes for neo-literates in both urban and rural areas and also to organise equivalency programmes through Open Learning Systems. To facilitate the playing of a better role. 2. CONCEPT
2.1 KRISHI EVAM GRAMIN VIKASH PERBANDHAN SANSTHAN is conceived as an institute for conducting skill upgradation in the areas of programmes of Non-formal, Adult and Continuing Education. It would also provide academic and technical resource support to NGO /TRUST/ SCHOOLS in both urban and rural areas.

The polyvalent approach attempts to provide knowledge and skills in an integrated manner and rests on the following principles: a worker/ neo-literate must have continuous access to education and training throughout his life; each programme should be need-based; since needs vary widely, programmes have to be

diversified

flexible

adaptable to varying situations

The Polyvalent approach takes into account: learning needs convenience of place and time for learners and instructors variety in

contents

duration

methods

instructional arrangements

The methodology includes

theory,

practicals; and

field work experience.

3. OBJECTIVES

3.1 To improve the occupational skills and technical knowledge of the neo-literates and the trainees and to raise their efficiency and increase productive ability;

3.2 To provide academic and technical resource support to zilla saksharata samities in taking up vocational and skill development programmes for neo-literates in both urban and rural areas;

3.3 To serve as nodal continuing education centres and to coordinate, supervise and monitor 10-15 continuing education centres/nodal centres;

3.4 To organise training and orientation courses for key resource persons, master trainers on designing, development and implementation of skill development programmes under the scheme of Continuing Education for neo-literates;

3.5 To organise equivalency programmes through Open Learning Systems.

3.6 To widen the range of knowledge and understanding of the social, economic and political systems in order to create a critical awareness about the environment;

3.7 To promote national goals such as secularism, national integration, population and development, women’s equality, protection and conservation of environment etc.

4 FUNCTIONS
4.1 Identify appropriate target areas and target groups by developing socio-economic profiles.

4.2 Identify and procure the list of neo-literates from NGO/ SCHOOLS and ensure that atleast 25% of the clientele of NITI is neo-literatres.

4.3 Organise training programmes for key resource persons, master trainers and trainees in vocational courses and for neo-literates.

4.4 Identify and ascertain a variety of educational and vocational needs of different categories of clientele groups.

4.5 Plan and organise polyvalent educational programmes and other activities including literacy, post-literacy, and continuing education to suit the learning requirements of target groups.

4.7 Cooperate with educational, cultural and other social organisations involved in organising programmes and activities to meet educational, vocational, social, cultural and welfare needs of target groups.

4.8 Act as a co-ordinator, facilitator and catalytic agent by developing a system of net-working in collaboration with other educational and technical institutions, development departments, welfare agencies, employers and workers’ organisations, voluntary agencies, economic enterprises /TRUST/NGO etc.

4.9 Undertake training and orientation of resource persons/instructors involved in planning and implementation of various programmes.

4.10 Organise equivalency programmes through Open Learning Systems.

4.12 Provide consultancy services to agencies and enterprises planning to organise programmes for training and education of similar target groups.

4.13 Organise educational and vocational training programmes with special concern for deprived sections, women/girls and unemployed youth to provide new skills, refine/sharpen/upgrade the existing skills leading to employment, self employment and income generation.

4.14 Promote organisation of forums such as co-operative societies, mandals and associations of women, youth and workers with a view to undertake collective activity for socio-economic development.

4.15 Provide follow-up services to beneficiaries of the NITI.

5 TARGET GROUP

5.2 Priority is to be given to adult neo-literates/semi-literates, SC and ST, women/girls, oppressed, migrants, slum/pavement dwellers and working children.